kasvaa

‘grow’ · runosong lemma · Finnish verb

English gloss	grow
Part of speech	verb
Language	Finnish
Total occurrences	8,987
By corpus	SKVR 5,694, JR 3,293, KR 362 poems, ERAB 0

The counts in this table cover all attested spellings of this lemma, not only the headword form; all are word occurrences, except the KR figure in the By corpus row, which counts poems and is not part of the total.

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Attested wordforms

kasvo, kasvoi, kasvoin, kasvaa, kasvoit, kasvakoon, kasvon, kasvat, kasvanut, kasvamaan, kazvoi, kasvakohon, kazvo, kasvavaksi, kasvanunna, kasvakkah, kasveli, kasvamahan, kasvaessa, kasvavan, kasvavia, kasvakaa, kasvamatta, kasvava, kasvamaa, kaswo, kasvakoo, kaswaa, kasvavakse, kasvaat, kazvoin, kazvelin, kasvavat, kasvajan, kasvakoot, kaso, kasvais, kasvelin, kaswa, kaswoi … and 331 more of 371 attested forms

English words in the AI translations

How often the AI analysis used each English word when it translated the uses of this word. Forms of one English word are counted together, and one translation can contain several words, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.

English word	Uses	Share
grow (grew, grows, growing, grown)	7,793	93.5%
face (face's, faces, faces', faced)	294	3.5%
let (let's)	222	2.7%
growth (growths, growth's, growths')	116	1.4%
while	37	0.4%
grower (grower's)	24	0.3%
raise (raised)	22	0.3%
watch (watched)	13	0.2%
land	12	0.1%
kasvoi	9	0.1%
Uses counted	8,336

Example verses

kazvakkah nut kallivotte (SKVR I1 19.) read in context
kazvakkah kivikorotki (SKVR I1 23.) read in context
Grew the stone ridges too,
siitä kasvo kaunis tammi (SKVR I1 35.) read in context
From it grew a fair oak,
kasvavi tulinen tami (SKVR I1 47.) read in context
Grew a fiery oak
toisin ennen touko kasvo (SKVR I1 52.) read in context
Differently before crops grew,
tuosta luoto kasvoahot (SKVR I1 58 a).) read in context
sihi korko kasvaohot (SKVR I1 61.) read in context
sihen kasvo kaunis kuusi (SKVR I1 72.) read in context
There grew a fair spruce,

Companion words

Words that co-occur with this lemma inside the same verse line more often than chance predicts, ranked by log-likelihood (G²) over verse-level co-occurrence in SKVR, KR, JR and ERAB; only pairs seen at least 3 times.

Word	Association (G²)	Co-occurrences
kaunis	4,032	858
tammi	2,392	397
kauan	1,862	308
syntyä	1,119	227
kylvää	1,046	172
kalvo	991	144
kauhea	957	138
karjala	947	149

Song types

Song types of the poems attesting this lemma, as catalogued per poem in the source corpora (ERAB type names are in Estonian, SKVR names in Finnish; JR and KR poems carry no song-type record).

Song type	Poems
Iso tammi	202
Kalervo ja Untamo	150
Nurmen neito	126
Katrina kotikananen	123
Suka mereen	108
Raudan synty	106
Raudan sanat	104
Puun sanat	103

Collection places

Where the poems attesting this lemma were collected; each count is the number of attesting poems recorded at that place.

Place	Poems
Narvusi	549
Soikkola	297
Vuokkiniemi	239
Lempaala	177
Suistamo	165
Ilomantsi	132
Uhtua	130
Kaprio	130
Sakkola	119
Vuole	116

Attestation over time

Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.

Decade	Poems
1690–1699	6
1700–1709	9
1720–1729	1
1730–1739	2
1740–1749	1
1750–1759	3
1760–1769	2
1770–1779	2
1780–1789	16
1800–1809	6
1810–1819	52
1820–1829	94
1830–1839	359
1840–1849	576
1850–1859	572
1860–1869	70
1870–1879	234
1880–1889	987
1890–1899	675
1900–1909	501
1910–1919	387
1920–1929	131
1930–1939	779
1940–1949	145
1950–1959	126
1960–1969	139

Collectors

The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.

Collector	Poems
Elias Lönnrot	637
Volmari Porkka	428
D. E. D. Europaeus	248
Forsberg (Alava), Vihtori	211
Jaako Länkelä	192

Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 5,897)

SKVR: SKVR I1 19., SKVR I1 23., SKVR I1 35., SKVR I1 47., SKVR I1 52., SKVR I1 58 a)., SKVR I1 61., SKVR I1 72., SKVR I1 77., SKVR I1 77 a)., SKVR I1 79 a)., SKVR I1 108., SKVR I1 125., SKVR I1 136., SKVR I1 165., SKVR I1 178., SKVR I1 179., SKVR I1 179 a)., SKVR I1 183., SKVR I1 185., SKVR I1 185 a)., SKVR I1 189., SKVR I1 193., SKVR I1 200., SKVR I1 206., SKVR I1 208., SKVR I1 209., SKVR I1 214., SKVR I1 216., SKVR I1 233., SKVR I1 237., SKVR I1 238., SKVR I1 240., SKVR I1 299., SKVR I1 317., SKVR I1 329., SKVR I1 334., SKVR I1 339., SKVR I1 339 a)., SKVR I1 369., SKVR I1 387., SKVR I1 387 a)., SKVR I1 410., SKVR I1 410 a)., SKVR I1 411., SKVR I1 412., SKVR I1 414., SKVR I1 428., SKVR I1 438., SKVR I1 443., SKVR I1 477., SKVR I1 520., SKVR I1 552., SKVR I1 553., SKVR I1 553 a)., SKVR I1 554., SKVR I1 555., SKVR I1 556., SKVR I1 558., SKVR I1 559.

Related lemmas

Estonian cognate: kasvama

← kass kasvama →

About this profile

The counts and examples on this page come from the lemmatized text of four Finnic runosong corpora: SKVR, JR, KR and ERAB. The table of English words comes from an AI analysis of the corpus; song types, collection places, collectors and dates follow each poem's own catalogue record.

The table of English words is counted from the translations kept in the AI analysis files, which hold only the most frequent translations of each word or spelling, so rare translations can be missing. Words that carry only grammar (such as the, to or didn’t) are left out, and so are English words used fewer than 5 times or in less than 0.1% of the uses counted. The analysis files can group two closely related words, which then show the same table.

Verses are found by the spellings listed above, so an occasional verse may show a different word spelled the same way.